North - Fitter - dep. Mombasa for Kismayu to repair the stern wheeler Kenia 9/5/1893; worked on contracts for Zanzibar Govt.; became private transporter and trader between coast and Uganda

North - Temp appt. UP to supervise building of stores at Entebbe, July 1895; agreement with UP to end 31/4/1896, to become independent trader transporting loads between Kikuyu & Uganda for UP. Kampala at start of Sudanese mutiny Oct. 1897; volunteered to help troops at start of Sudanese mutiny, dep. Kampala for Luba's 22/10/1897; East & Central Africa medal, clasps 'Lubwas' & 'Uganda 97-8'; Partnership with Oscar Smith formed, Kampala 15-10-1899; UP transport Agent Kampala July 1899; prohibited from hiring porters from within the UP by Acting Commissioner, Lieut.-Col. T. Ternan, after many reports of ill treatment 8-7-1899; partnership with Oscar Smith dissolved, Mumias 1-11-1899; fined 1000 Rs for breach of Porters' Regulations 16-2-1900; First European trader to Busoga, 1900, sentenced to one year's imprisonment with hard labour by Lieut. C.W. Fowler for ill treating natives, July 1900; at Mombasa after release from prison in Uganda and due to be deported to Bombay 11-8-1901. "his handling of porters left much to be desired" (Ainsworth, RH); 'a dangerous filibuster, utterly unscrupulous as to his methods or aims' (Sir Harry Johnston, FO 2)

IBEA Co. - Nominal List of British Born Subjects resident in IBEA Territories within the Sultan's Domain, 30 April 1891 - John Gemmal, England, Railway works

North - 'To be at once dispensed with' (Mackinnon Papers) 17-6-1892